Could I make a request for for some of the other Winamp Modern colour themes to be ported to the Bento skin. I was trying the other day but I couldn't figure out which groups where which. I will try with the Bento update and see if that helps.

Originally posted by J_Darnley Could I make a request for for some of the other Winamp Modern colour themes to be ported to the Bento skin. I was trying the other day but I couldn't figure out which groups where which. I will try with the Bento update and see if that helps.

In my package you can found the Varsity theme. I try to port this from winamp modern to bento. It was not so easy to do this and the result is more different to the original. but I can try this again with an other colourtheme from the winamp modern skin.

I forgot to mentioned that the shade modes from my package are very incomplete too.

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@martin.deimos
I think the background from the component tabs also need a colour group.

a extra colour group would be also nice for the songtimer,vis,kbps/khz/stereo text. look at my 'varity' theme, there are these areas a little bit green, but the other text is more yellow than green.

and it would be nice if the scollbars and the player buttons have not the same colour group.

I noticed that at the playlist the selected items have not the same color than the selected items at the media library. I see this also at older winamp versions, so I think its not a bug, its a feature

Thx for your updates.
Will include all in the themes pack first and pick the best themes for the final release

Direct port from wa modern to wa bento is impossible due to the different standard colors. i am really sorry.
best is you start 2 winamp instances - one w/ wa modern, one w/ bento - and start to create the same theme.

and i don't think i will create more gammagroups, since if i create new ones - the old ones break. so this should be a status quo now.

Minor iBento update: TitleButtonOrange now charcoal instead of aqua (more subtle).
Willing to take colour suggestions. Selection is currently white because although it's difficult to read on the light gray in the playlist, it's easy to read on the pastel blue SelectionBg. Yellow also works to a degree, but does not flow with the theme.

Originally posted by SLoB probably a bit late now but there are already thousands of colour themes for the modern skin, for consistency across the suite it would have been nice if the current stock of themes were able to be used in Bento, that way pretty much everyone can still use their favourite colour theme in the new skin, yes I know its a new skin but you will still get people wanting a similar colour theme to what they use in the modern skin, the only issue there is it will still look different due to the darkness of the skin compared to the modern, the other option would have been to control everything with an RGB picker

I tried a quick conversion (trying to guess the best equivalent groups) but, as more or less expected, many themes are unusable and those that aren't don't look too good either.

I've finally finished the colour theme I was working on. I tried to recreate the City Night theme from the Winamp Modern skin. I couldn't match everything up as many of the groups are different. Anyway, here it is:

Hmmm... what do you guys reckon to having the same shade of ScrollbarTrack as in the ML in Winamp Classic skin? Or should we stick to the current black one (as included with Bento in 5.5 Beta 2 and/or the attachment in my previous post)?

The only things I can't ever get the same as Classic skin are:
Volume slider bar (volume bar and seekbar are both linked/controlled by PlayerSliderLight)
and Spectrum vis, which is linked with/controlled by DisplayText.
Besides which, both can only be one color, whereas Classic Volume and Vis go green->yellow->orange->red.

The only things I can't ever get the same as Classic skin are:
Volume slider bar (volume bar and seekbar are both linked/controlled by PlayerSliderLight)
and Spectrum vis, which is linked with/controlled by DisplayText.
Besides which, both can only be one color, whereas Classic Volume and Vis go green->yellow->orange->red.

realy hard decision, I personaly like the one with the darker scrollbartrack, but the other one looks good too.
In general I think dark themes should have a dark scrollbartrack.

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Originally posted by J_Darnley I've finally finished the colour theme I was working on. I tried to recreate the City Night theme from the Winamp Modern skin. I couldn't match everything up as many of the groups are different. Anyway, here it is:

hi,
I worked on this theme too. Think it looks better with brighter buttons to have more contrast.

here is a screen of what I get on try to converting the original theme.

that's strange,
after a second look at the two classic skins I prefer the one from the sreenshot. The first time I look at the boths I thought the scrollbartrack colour was to bright, but now I don't think so anymore. I think I should also use a brighter scrollbartrack at the city lights theme.

perhaps I played to long with the color editor to make and improve my themes. this tool makes addicted. it must come from hell!

I've made a couple of slight changes to my version of City Night. I corrected the bright bit of the sliders, was grey now yellow; regular buttons made brighter, now same colour as the sliders; titlebar buttons made slightly darker.

It still has one problem I need to decide on a way to solve. The Main Window time display is overly bright so the fade/glow effect doesn't show up. If I make it darker, the rest of the text become too dark. I think I try and mod the skin to make it a different group.

how can you guys like that stupid winamp2 classic look and the piddly little seeker bar? its like a de- evolution of the winamp5 modern skin, talk about 1 step forward(SUI), and 2 backwards for classic crap style.

and this skin bugs me with its annoying toaster popup crap that defaults to always on, and doesn't matter if you turn it off, it turn its self back on again.. yay, cough* rubbish

[Edit --> DJ Egg]
Wrong thread dude. Please do not hijack the Color Themes thread to bitch about the skin. It's just a skin. If you don't like it, stick to using the Winamp Modern skin instead (it isn't going anywhere). Or use one of the many thousands of other skins available out there. Many users asked for a SingleUI skin. Those who want/like it will use it, those who don't won't.

And I can't reproduce your Notifier problem.
Once set to 'Never' it stays that way for me.